Double Trouble
Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2005
357 pages
978-0-19-534646-6 (ISBN)
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J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. Black constituents naturally look to black mayors to effect great change for the poor, but the reality of the situation is complicated. Thompson argues that African-American mayors, legislators, and political activists need to more effectively challenge opinions and public policies supported by the white public and encourage greater political inclusion and open political discourse within black communities. Only by unveiling painful internal oppresssions and exclusions within black politics will the black community's power increase, and compel similar unveilings in the broader interracial conversation about the problems of the urban poor. Tracing the historical development and contemporary practice of black mayoral politics, this is a fascinating study of the motivations of black politicians, competing ideologies in the black community and the inner dynamics of urban social change.
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Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy
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J. Phillip Thompson, III is Associate Professor of Urban Politics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked for a decade in New York City government, serving as Deputy General Manager of the New York Housing Authority and as Director of the Mayor's Office of Housing Coordination and principal mayoral liaison to the 1991 New York City Council Re-Districting Commission during the Dinkins administration.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Part I: Black Mayors and the Quest for Democracy
- 1 Introduction: Black Mayors and Social Change
- Transformative Black Politics: A Third Wave
- Is Empowerment Possible?
- Power and Deep Pluralism
- Gear Shifting: The Strategic Use of Civil Power in Building Coalitions
- From Coalitions to Alliances
- 2 "The Dirty Little Secret" of Black Politics
- Accountability as a Political Imperative for Black Mayors
- "They May Be Vulnerable Themselves": The Logic of Demobilization of the Black Community
- Resources for Mobilization: Old and New Forms of Patronage
- Does the Institutionalization of Black Politics Preclude Disruptive Politics?
- 3 Acquiring, Building, and Sustaining Power: Black CivicOrganizations in Urban Democracy
- Contours and Divides in Black Political Thought
- Popular Support for Differing Black Political Strategies
- Trends in Black Civic Participation and Capacity
- Community-Based Organizations
- Trade Unions
- Black Churches
- Black Coalitions
- Recent National Coalition Efforts
- Black Mayors and Black Coalitions
- Community Capacity for Pluralism
- 4 Race and Interracial Coalitions
- Ideal and Less-than-Ideal Biracial Coalitions
- Black Mayoral Politics
- Black/White Racial Dialogue
- Intraminority Coalitions
- Black Mayors and Interracial Solidarity
- Racial Solidarity in Oakland
- Part II: The Dinkins Experience
- 5 "Cursed by Factions and Feuds": Black Factionalism and the Structure of New York City Government
- Black Political Beginnings in New York City
- The New Deal-World War II Era
- Post-New Deal Stagnation in Racial Progress
- New York's Political Structure and Its Effect on Black Politics
- Black Electoral Politics in Manhattan
- Black Politics in Brooklyn
- Black Machine Politics in Queens
- Fighting Puerto Ricans in the Bronx
- Attempts to Build Citywide Black Coalitions in the 1980s
- The 1984 Jackson Presidential Campaign in New York City
- The Coalition for a Just New York (CJNY)
- The Third Attempt: The 1988 Jackson Campaign
- Why a Black Coalition Emerged During Dinkins's Campaign for Mayor
- 6 "Set Up a Think Tank": A Black Mayor's Accountability to the Black Community: The Case of David Dinkins
- Pressures to Conform
- Shift in Political Strategy: Community Mobilization and Power
- Promise and Pitfalls in Using Administrative Power to Organize the Black Community
- 7 Race, Class, and Ideology in a New York Mayoral Election
- Conservative White Mobilization and Resurgent Black Nationalism
- "Go Black" or "Go White": A Mayor's Impossible Choice
- From Black Nationalism to Multiracial Coalition Building
- Race and Ideological Polarization in New York
- Summing-Up: Race and Political Change in New York City
- 8 Conclusion: From Con.ict to Transformation
- Deepening Black Pluralism and Counterarguments in Other Cities
- Arguments for Regionalism
- Notes
- References
- Index
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